{"id":4194,"date":"2014-03-13T00:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/sweet-potato-soup\/"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:30:30","slug":"sweet-potato-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/sweet-potato-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grandpa&#8217;s Sweet Potato Soup<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 large sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>1 whole sweet onion &#8211; chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL butter<\/li>\n<li>3 C Chicken stock<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C Half and Half<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Fresh grated ginger<\/li>\n<li>1 lime<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>Cayenne pepper and black pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Chop onion into 1 inch pieces<\/li>\n<li>Soften onion in butter<\/li>\n<li>Cut sweet potato into 1 inch squares, and add to pan<\/li>\n<li>Grate about 1 tsp ginger<\/li>\n<li>Add milk and broth<\/li>\n<li>simmer for 30 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Add cayenne<\/li>\n<li>Blend using immersion blender<\/li>\n<li>Squeeze in juice of one lime (no zest this time)<\/li>\n<li>Serve and garnish with black pepper and a sprig of cilantro<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Whitehouse Recipe<\/h2>\n<p>This recipe was adapted from \u201cThe Whitehouse Cookbook\u201d published in 1887 by Fanny Lemira Gillette &amp; Hugo Ziemann. Grover Cleveland was President of the United States at the time.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cut apart two leaks and wash them well.<\/li>\n<li>Dry them in a salad spinner, and sautee in olive oil in hot pan<\/li>\n<li>Throw in 1\/2 inch chunks of sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>1 diced apple<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 minced onion<\/li>\n<li>1 can (or two cups) Chicken stock<\/li>\n<li>Whole cloves and a Bay leaf in bouquet garnis &#8211; so you can remove them later<\/li>\n<li>Heat together until soft and then, remove bouquet garnis<\/li>\n<li>Blend and strain<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 4pt;\">(white house)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is another recipe:<\/p>\n<h2>Pear and Sweet Potato Soup<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aiif6424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300px\" height=\"194px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandpa&#8217;s Sweet Potato Soup 1 large sweet potato 1 whole sweet onion &#8211; chopped 2 TBL butter 3 C Chicken stock 1\/2 C Half and Half 1 tsp Fresh grated ginger 1 lime 1\/2 tsp salt Cayenne pepper and black pepper to taste Chop onion into 1 inch pieces Soften onion in butter Cut sweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/sweet-potato-soup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweet Potato Soup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18044,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions\/18044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}